A few H!P PVs have been released lately (okay, a couple of these are old, but I’ve been wanting to review them), and to save you clicks and me time, I’m rounding them all up into one post. Remember, I already warned you that my patience with H!P is gone.

Morning Musume – Pyocopyoco Ultra

When I heard the radio rip for this song, I actually really liked it. It’s really catchy on it’s own and it showcases the new members, which although isn’t great yet, it’s smart on Tsunku’s part. If all of the lines are given to Reina or Mame, then it’ll be a PAIN once they graduate (such as, I can imagine, it is now divvying up all of Ai’s parts).

Then the covers and group concept pictures were released.

Then the MV.

Can I emphasize how much I have been disappointed with Morning Musume lately? Leave it to Tsunku to take a perfectly good song and fuck duck it up. To save an incredibly long rant, here’s the one good thing about this PV: Gakisan. She really, really shines among the rest. And I really love that her costume is different, it really shows that she’s the queen duck. Otherwise, yeah. There’s nothing good about this PV. It makes me sick to my stomach. I’ve tried about 5 times and I still cannot watch it all the way through.

Tsunku, little girls are already fans of Morning Musume. They will listen anyway. Especially since you’re adding kindergartners to the group. You need to be targetting the market that is leaning to AKB: young adults and the older male fans. You used to do it, and it worked really, really well. Don’t know why that’s changed, but he is really throwing a great group down the tubes. Just because the new members are young doesn’t mean they have to be dancing in duck outfits. Seriously.

So I’m home with swine flu, quarantined and not allowed to leave my house, even for my senior year homecoming game or dance. As you can imagine, I’m pretty upset. But, despite all that and my dad being a jackass, Morning Musume always cheers me up. Why this time, you ask.

Rant with Friends:

Like this:

The lineups for the “revival groups” in Hello! Project’s summer shuffle album have been revealed! Now I’m about 89342 times more excited to get the album and see it live! (Ftw, bought my ticket! I’m sooooooo excited!!)

Well, it might be good news. I’m not really sure what’s going to happen with them, but in April, 4 brand new fanclubs will begin under UFA.

The first will be, of course, Hello! Project (which depressingly will only consist of Morning Musume, Berryz Koubou, C-ute, and Mano Erina… but wait! Where are the eggs?!)

The second is (and this is the hopefully good part) what will be called M-Line, aka Elder Club minus a few. This will consist of Nakazawa Yuko, Iida Kaori (wut?), Abe Natsumi, Yasuda Kei, Yaguchi Mari (!), Ishikawa Rika, Yoshizawa Hitomi, Konno Asami (!), Ogawa Makoto (!), Fujimoto Miki, Tsuji Nozomi (!!@!), and Ongaku Gatas (Satoda Mai?, Noto Arisa, Sengoku Minami, Korenaga Miki, and Sawada Yuri). I think this means a new concert unit, which is really exciting and I would be super super excited if all these artists started releasing music. So happy. I would probably explode if I saw a Yaguchi Mari solo single.

The third is Ayaway, a fanclub for Matsuura Aya, which is both good and bad. Good because she won’t die. Bad because a) I was hoping she’d switch to Avex, b) she probably won’t be perfoming with M-Line, which is boo, and c) she’ll probably still get boring music. D:

The fourth and final is probably the funniest of them all. And yes, that’s just me being a jerk. But it’s a Melon Kinenbi fanclub called… *chuckle* Melon Kinenbi. MAN. These people are full of brilliant ideas for MKB. Honestly, I can see like… 1,00 people joining this. At max. If that, even.

Overall, YAY more Elder Club! I just hope they actually do something! The only super disappointing thing here is… where’s Erika and Yui?

It’s a proven fact: everything happens as soon as I leave. I went to New Mexico for Thanksgiving and I missed FOREVER LOVE, Cover You, White X’mas, Iida Kaori’s baby dying, and two of my favorite H!P girls opening blogs. So, as usual, I’m going to cram all that I missed into one post.